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[chorus: swel] you can’t kill the wise we gon be here in your children’s eyes and your children’s children’s children’s eyes we was built to rise and we will survive

[verse one: swel boogie] who’s gettin sh*tted on? who’s gettin sh*tted on? who’s the next motherf**ker to get sh*tted on? ’cause if that n*gg* is me, then we gon get it on don’t even smile in my face if we don’t get along yeah that’s right, i sound foul (so?) and maybe even sound bocus, but focus just notice that i know how it feels to be hopeless and homeless but it ain’t about hard times everybody goes through a struggle that makes ya mind craze and you thinkin who’s above you but i get up, i don’t stay down i got lot of sh*t to climb, get with the time you sh*t on me? that’s fine i’m at the finish line, now you behind we in the race and i’m droppin your horse everything down my road is an obsticle course and one by one i see ’em go down and i’m sweatin to win who’s goin get the gold i see the fool is bettin, it’s him so now we’re toe-to-toe, eye-to-eye will you survive? my crew will strive, we clever why we never die it’s true we rise

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[verse two: jise one] we stranded on jungles of concrete primal fear scuffing my feet where paper scuffle spear head pens and rhymes is good to eat where two species of snake meet ground pound instinct, swamp walkin a leech a street parasite wedging my soul to heat machetero, puro latino hybrid with hyena laugh it off scr*ping the blood sucka off racing a cheetah key to the world i walk, i talk in my step guerilla suited and fitted who chalk reps sh*tted with hearts knitted my tribes kept and never slept night watch changing my shift just in case of deadly concepts possess a myth that i could sniff my prev’s shadow in my perimeter sinister sounds at night so i hibernate in the winter

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[verse three: q-unique] i stand evenly against all odds now at a war with gods so from the heavens came triggered bullets to dodge struggle to survive it’s never ending my eyes locked on the bonus plan though adversity keeps it pending food, shelter, riches, hopes, dreams, wishes but life could be like a mixer sometimes the fader switches watchin as time p*sses to the last sand granular put on to run the streets without a survival manual i move day to day, unaware but well prepared digest the proper rations and framed lenses to help my stare exists ’cause i’m one step ahead never get ahead of myself ’cause one too many steps could be one step ya dead i’ve played many times with the chess master lost some of my p*wns and sent my knights into shear and great disaster i stratagize and move through life’s highway at the end smile with a sinatra’s sureness ’cause i know i did it +my way+